Light & Motion Seca 800 User manual

2011-2012 Light & Motion
Seca 800 & 1400 Instruction Manual

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Congratulations! You’ve purchased what we consider the best
single-emitter bicycle lighting system available – the Light & Motion
Stella. We hope that your new light will inspire you to leave your car at
home, rediscover your old stomping grounds, and ride your bike year-round.
To receive maximum benet from your new Light & Motion system,
please take a moment to familiarize yourself with your new light by
reading the following instructions.
Caution
Warranty
Light & Motion provides warranties against manufacturer defects for 1
year starting from the date of purchase. While the warranty is
non-transferable and does not cover failures from misuse, damaged
lights can usually be repaired for a nominal fee.
Returning Products for Warranty Evaluation & Repair
Should your system malfunction for any reason, submit a service request
to the Light & Motion service department at:
www.bikelights.com/support
We will contact you the following business day to finalize the
arrangements for your repair. When returning your system, please
make sure to unplug the battery from the light before shipping. All
warranty and repair products should be returned, with proof of purchase
from an authorized dealer to:
Light & Motion
RMA# ____________
300 Cannery Row
Monterey, CA 93940
International customers please contact your local bicycle dealer for
warranty and return instructions.
• A good lighting system can make cycling in the dark safer, but the
best way to be safe is to ride defensively.
• When not in use, ALWAYS unplug the light head from the battery.
When unplugging the light head cable from the battery, always pull
the connector, not the cable.
• ONLY use Light & Motion chargers to charge your Light & Motion
batteries. Failure to do so will void the warranty and damage the system.

“That thing throws some
serious light. It was like my
bike had high beams.“
Jeremy Spencer, Senior “Outside“ Editor
Seca Lighting Systems
Seca 1400 & Contents
Seca 800 & Contents
Charging
Charging with the Mini-L 1.5 Charger
Charging with the Mini L Charger
Installation of Seca & Battery
Installing Seca onto your bike
Installing Seca onto You
Installing the battery
Plugging Seca into the battery
Seca Light System Operation
Normal Operation
Aiming Your Light
Battery Discharge Protection
Seca Run Times
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Recycling Instructions
Light and Motion Parts & Accessories
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Seca Lighting Systems
Please take a moment to verify the contents of your Light & Motion lighting system.
Figure 1a: Photo of Seca 1400 Figure 1b: Photo of Seca 800
Seca 1400:
1a. Seca 1400 LED light head
(white cooling ns)
2a. 11.1V, 6 Cell Li-ion battery
3a. Light & Motion Mini L 1.5 Charger
4. Helmet Mount
5. Velcro Battery Strap
Seca 800:
1b. Seca 800 LED light head
(red cooling ns)
2b. 11.1V, 3 Cell Li-ion battery
3b. Light & Motion Mini L Charger
4. Helmet Mount
5. Velcro Battery Strap
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Figure 2a: Photo of
6Cell Li-ion battery
Figure 2a: Photo of
3Cell Li-ion battery
Figure 3a: Photo of
Mini-L 1.5 Charger
Figure 3a: Photo of
Mini-L Charger
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Figure 4:
Helmet Mount
Figure 4:
Helmet Mount
Figure 5:
Velcro Battery Strap
Figure 5:
Velcro Battery Strap

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Seca 800:
1b. Seca 800 LED light head
(red cooling ns)
2b. 11.1V, 3 Cell Li-ion battery
3b. Light & Motion Mini L Charger
4. Helmet Mount
5. Velcro Battery Strap
Always fully charge your battery before its rst use. Batteries are shipped only partially char-
ged and must be fully charged to achieve the proper run time. Take this time to familiarize
yourself with our smart charger and what the status indictor LEDs mean.
Note: All of our Li-ion chargers are ONLY compatible with Light & Motion batteries.
The battery may be left on the Mini L 1.5 or Mini-L charger indenitely, without harming the
battery.
Note: We only use smart chargers. That means you can leave the battery on the char-
ger after it is done charing, with no harm to the battery. To maintain optimum batte-
ry performance, please take the battery off the charger after it is done charging. For
long term storage, we recommend storing your Lithium-ion battery with a 40-60%
charge. Every three months, run the battery down using the light head and then
charge it back up to 40-60% charge. Then fully charge the battery before you ride.
An acceptable alternate method of extended storage is giving the battery a top-up
charge once a month.
Charge your battery immediately after a ride, remove it from the charger for storage, and
then top it up the day of your next ride.
Charging with the Mini L 1.5 Charger
1. Plug the power cord into the charger and then into the appropriate wall socket.
2. Attach the battery to the Mini L 1.5 Charger by aligning the colored arrow on the
plug from the charger with the red dot or arrow on the Li-ion batteries, inserting the
plug into the battery’s socket.
3. Once the battery is attached to the Mini L 1.5 Charger, an orange LED will
illuminate on the right side and a green LED will illuminate on the left side of the
charger indicating the battery is receiving a charge.
4. When both LEDs illuminate green, this is an indication the battery is fully charged.
An alternating orange/green LED indicates an error. If this happens, remove the battery and
unplug the Mini L 1.5 Charger from the wall and wait about 5 minutes. Then try to charge
the system again. If you see the same error, please contact the Light & Motion service
department. If no indicator light comes on, make sure the connector is fully seated. We
have the most water-resistant connector in the industry, and sometimes you need to “burp”
the air trapped under the connector.
The Mini L 1.5 Charger will charge a fully depleted battery in about the following times:
3 cell 1:45hrs
6 cell 2:00hrs
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Charging Cont‘d
Charging with the Mini-L charger
1. Plug the charger body into a wall socket
2. Attach the battery to the Mini-L charger by aligning the colored arrow on the plug
from the charger with the orientation indicator on the battery (red dot, or groove),
inserting the plug into the battery’s socket.
3. A red LED will illuminate, indicating the battery is receiving a charge.
4. When the indicator LED turns green your battery is fully charged.
A quick ash (0.1 seconds every second) indicates the battery has very low voltage, and the
charger is attempting to recondition the battery for charging.
A slow blink (0.5 seconds every 4 seconds) indicates a defective battery, and you should
contact the Light & Motion service department. If no indicator light comes on, make sure
the connector is fully seated. We have the most water-resistant connector in the industry,
which requires a rm insertion to burp the trapped air and complete the sealed connection.
If the LED on the charger still does not illuminate, the charger does not recognize the
attached battery as valid for charging (older NiMH batteries).
The Mini-L Charger will charge a fully depleted 2 or 3 cell battery in about 6 hours.

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Installing Seca onto your bike
Your Light & Motion Seca light head comes with a universal bar/helmet
mount. To install on your handlebar, determine the best place on the bar
to mount as it relates to your specic brake & shifter layout. Ideally, Seca
should be mounted as close to the stem as possible. After determining
the proper location, wrap the strap under and around the handlebar,
pulling it up and over the mounting post in front of the light (g 15).
Note: Tighten the strap only enough to prevent slipping around the bar.
Pulling the strap too tight can eventually cause a premature failure
To remove, simply release the strap from the locking post
Installation of Seca & the Battery
Charging Cont‘d
Figure 15: Seca on
bar (strap over post).
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Figure 17: Mount
tight on helmet.
Installing Seca onto You
The Helmet mount is designed to be mounted on any standard,
vented bicycle helmet. Position the base of the helmet mount on top of
the helmet, in the middle and slightly forward of center. Slide the hook
and loop strap down through the proper vent, back up through the
opposing vent, and nally through the slot in the base of the mount. Pull
the strap tight and slide it back down the vent and afx it to the “loop”
side of the strap inside the helmet (g 17). Now install Seca just like you
would on a handlebar (see instructions “Installing Seca onto your bike”).
Installing the Battery
Frame mounted battery:
All Light & Motion batteries are designed to mount on a bicycle frame
tube or seat post. Figure 18 shows battery curve on the 3-cell and 6-cell
batteries which are designed to rest against a bicycle tube. Pull tightly
on the strap and afx the end of the strap to itself via the hook-and-loop
mounting surface. Wrap any excess around the battery until the entire
strap is secured. There should be enough tension on the strap to prevent
the battery from moving freely on the tube or seat post.
When routing the plug, you may choose to loosely coil the excess cable
around the frame (g 20). Make sure the cable has enough slack to move
freely when your handlebar is turned in the furthest position. This can be
accomplished by rst running the cable over the handlebar, then back to
the battery. This will prevent damaging your light head in a crash.
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Figure 18:
Battery Curve.
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Figure 20: Cable
coiled on frame.

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Body mounted battery:
The battery pack is designed to be carried in a jersey pocket or hydration
pack. Hint: running the power cord through one of the back vents of your
helmet before connecting it to your battery will keep the cord from
sliding from side to side.
CAUTION: – NEVER attach a helmet mounted light to a frame mounted
battery, or a frame mounted light to a body mounted battery
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Figure 20:
Cable coiled on frame.
Plugging Seca into the Battery
Plug the light head cable into the socket on top of the battery by aligning the cable’s
arrow to the battery’s orientation mark (a dot, groove, or arrow). Due to the high
quality seal of our connector, occasionally air compressed within the battery socket
can push the cable back out. Make sure the socket has “burped” this air for the
reliable, trouble free connection Light & Motion lights are known for.
Installation Cont‘d

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Figure 20:
Cable coiled on frame.
Installation Cont‘d
Normal Operation
The Light & Motion Seca LED lights all have one switch on the top of the head that controls
power. A brief button push activates “Cruise” mode where you will nd 4 settings: High,
Medium, Low, and Flash. A single click cycles through each of these settings. Because our
riders are versatile cyclists, we design our lights to accommodate those needs. Seca also
has a “Race” mode you can enter by pushing and holding the button to turn on. Race mode
has only 2 settings: High and Low, with a single click cycling between them. In either mode,
pushing and holding the button for 1-2 seconds will turn off the light.
Note: The LED emitters and supporting circuitry used in Seca emit a weak electromag-
netic eld and may interfere with some wireless cycle computers and hear rate monitors.
Aiming your light
Light & Motion creates lights with optics designed to reect the maximum amount of light
and direct to where a rider needs it most. Seca takes this one step further and introduces
our proprietary Gem-Beam footprint of light, which clips light from where you don’t need it
and redistributes it where you do.
For best results at lower speeds, position your light so that you get ample ll/peripheral
light in front of the tire from the flood portion of the beam. For faster speeds, you can
position it slightly higher so that the spot portion of the beam shoots farther down the road
giving you enhanced depth perception and a long line of site.
Battery Discharge Protection
All Light & Motion lights incorporate a battery discharge protection circuit. If the battery
becomes discharged, the light head will automatically dim down to try and preserve battery
life, and eventually shut off to protect the battery.
Low Battery:
Seca lets you know your battery is low in three ways:
1. a drop in light output,
2. a slow steady blink from the indicator light in the button,
3. a warning ash from the main LEDs.
Once in low battery mode, the indicator light will blink for the remainder of the ride, and
the main LEDs will ash every 3 minutes as a warning (which can be seen when your light is
helmet mounted). You can easily over-ride this main LED warning ash by simply pressing
the button. All of these warning signals are to alert you so that when the battery is nally
dead and your light shuts off you are not surprised.
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Auto-Shutoff
When Seca can’t stay on any longer without damaging the battery, it will shutoff with a
slow fade out to give you time to hit the brakes and stop safely.
Seca Operations Cont‘d / Recycling
Lumens 3 Cell
High
800
2:00
Med
400
4:00
Low
200
8:00
Flash
-
100+
Lumens 6 Cell
High
1400
2:30
Med
700
5:00
Low
350
10:00
Flash
-
100+
Seca Run Times
Seca 1400
Seca 800
Recycling Instructions
This product contains components that may not be disposed of as unsorted municipal
waste and must be reused or recycled per the requirements of the European Union
Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The logo on
the battery indicates that the product must be returned for the reuse or recycling.
Please contact the store where your product was purchased to determine how and where
to return the product for recycling.
Light & Motion thanks you for helping us manage the recycling of these components in
order to keep the environment clean.

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Seca Operations Cont‘d / Recycling
Seca 1400
Seca 800
L&M Parts & Accessories
Batteries
804-0065 11.1v 6-cell Li-ion Battery
804-0087 11.1v 3-cell Li-ion Cub Battery
Chargers
804-0090 Mini L 1.5 Turbo Charger
804-0107 Mini L Smart Charger
804-0056 DC to AC Car Adapter
804-0122 Int'l Adapter Kit for Mini L Charger
Accessories
826-0291 Seca 1400 Light Head only
826-0308 Seca 800 Light Head only
826-0312 Stella 600 Dual Light Head only
826-0311 Stella 300 Light Head only
826-0267 Stella 120N Light Head only
804-0108 Seca/Vega Spare Bar Mount
804-0110 Stella Spare Bar Mount
804-0120 Seca/Vega Spare Strap
804-0119 Stella Spare Strap
804-0129 Seca Low Profile Spare Bar Mount 2010
661-1327 Seca Low Profile Spare Strap
804-0109 Helmet Mount (Seca/Stella)
804-0133 Adventure Head Strap 2010
804-0095 Multi-Sport Head Strap (Seca/Stella)
804-0111 Travel/Storage Case
634-0012 Battery Strap (Velcro)

300 Cannery Row
Monterey, CA. 93940
United States of America
Phone [phone]
[email protected]
www.lightandmotion.com